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Carbon Offsets Bring New Investment To Appalachia’s Coal Fields, But Most Appalachians Aren’t Benefiting

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 04/04/2024 - 12:02am

Central Appalachia is home to the third-largest concentration of forest carbon offsets traded on the California carbon market. But while these projects bring new investments to Appalachia, most people in Appalachia are not benefiting.

The effect of this new economic activity is evident in the Clearfork Valley, a forested region of steep hills and meandering creeks on the Kentucky-Tennessee border.

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Invaders From Underground Are Coming In Cicada-Geddon. It's The Biggest Bug Emergence In Centuries

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Thu, 04/04/2024 - 12:02am

T.J. Rauls plants rosebushes in his yard in Macon, Ga., Wednesday, March 27, 2024. While digging the holes, Rauls unearthed a periodical cicada nymph and named it Bobby.
(Carolyn Kaster / AP Photo)

Trillions of evolution’s bizarro wonders, red-eyed periodical cicadas that have pumps in their heads and jet-like muscles in their rears, are about to emerge in numbers not seen in decades and possibly centuries.

Crawling out from underground every 13 or 17 years, with a collective song as loud as jet engines, the periodical cicadas are nature’s kings of the calendar.

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Excessively High Rents Are A Major Burden For Immigrants In US Cities

Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 03/28/2024 - 5:00am

Rents across the U.S. have climbed to staggering levels in recent years. Millions of renters spend more than 30% of their income on rent and utilities, a situation that housing experts call being cost burdened.

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Thin, Bacteria-Coated Fibers Could Lead To Self-Healing Concrete That Fills In Its Own Cracks

Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 03/28/2024 - 4:00am

Some say there are two types of concrete – cracked and on the brink of cracking. But what if when concrete cracked, it could heal itself?

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Fundraising For Omaha’s New Central Library Surpasses $158m Goal

Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 03/28/2024 - 3:00am

OMAHA — The fundraising effort to pay for the Omaha Public Library system’s new central library has surpassed its $158 million goal.

Partner organizations describe the 96,000-square-foot facility under construction at the southwest corner of 72nd and Dodge Streets as a new “cultural and technological landmark.”

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Housing Advocates Converge At State Capitol, Hear Grim Update On Affordable Housing Efforts

Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 03/21/2024 - 5:00am

LINCOLN — The Nebraska Legislature gets a “low” score for progress so far this year on improving affordable housing options, State Sen. Tony Vargas of Omaha said Wednesday during an annual housing justice and lobbying event that drew about 100 advocates to the Unicameral.

“We are not keeping up,” Vargas said, adding that Iowa spends twice as much as Nebraska on affordable housing.

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Power Play: Project To Move Power Through Nebraska Sandhills Has Stalled … For 12 Years.

Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 03/21/2024 - 4:00am

Landowner Lemoyne Dailey says recent damage done to his Sandhills ranch land is one reason he’s opposed to a long-delayed power transmission line being built in the area. He says that Nebraska Public Power District workers damaged this hill, making ruts and doing other damage to the land. (Andrew Bottrell / Flatwater Free Press)

Lemoyne Dailey, a long-time rancher, says he has to be careful how he “makes his footprints” when he works on his land near Thedford.

The rolling Sandhills are a fragile environment, Dailey said, the grasses and sands easily torn up and tough to restore.

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Omaha Housing Authority Pauses Most Eviction Filings Amid Public Scrutiny

Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 03/21/2024 - 3:00am

Once Omaha’s leading initiator of evictions, the city’s public housing authority has all but stopped filing cases to remove tenants from their homes.

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South Omaha Group Reveals Updated Vision For $25 Million State-Funded ‘Adelante’ Park Project

Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 03/14/2024 - 5:00am

By Cindy Gonzalez

Nebraska Examiner

OMAHA — One of the biggest winners of the North-South Omaha economic recovery grants celebrated Thursday with a street fiesta and a progress report on how it plans to spend the $25 million in state aid.

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Despite Compromises, Bill To Allow ‘Clean Slate’ For Tenants Defeated By Filibuster

Published by Nikki Palmer on Thu, 03/14/2024 - 4:00am

A measure that would allow certain eviction proceeding records to be sealed failed to advance from general file March 7 after an unsuccessful motion to end debate on the bill.

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Real Estate News

Carbon Offsets Bring New Investment To Appalachia’s Coal Fields, But Most Appalachians Aren’t Benefiting

Invaders From Underground Are Coming In Cicada-Geddon. It's The Biggest Bug Emergence In Centuries

Excessively High Rents Are A Major Burden For Immigrants In US Cities

Thin, Bacteria-Coated Fibers Could Lead To Self-Healing Concrete That Fills In Its Own Cracks

Fundraising For Omaha’s New Central Library Surpasses $158m Goal

Housing Advocates Converge At State Capitol, Hear Grim Update On Affordable Housing Efforts

Power Play: Project To Move Power Through Nebraska Sandhills Has Stalled … For 12 Years.

Omaha Housing Authority Pauses Most Eviction Filings Amid Public Scrutiny

South Omaha Group Reveals Updated Vision For $25 Million State-Funded ‘Adelante’ Park Project

Despite Compromises, Bill To Allow ‘Clean Slate’ For Tenants Defeated By Filibuster

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